Turkish magazine's Prophet Muhammad, Prophet Moses cartoon sparks anger
According to local media, satirical LeMan magazine editors shared a cartoon depicting both Prophet Muhammad and Prophet Moses, triggering widespread anger. In return, Istanbul's chief prosecutor ordered the arrest of the editors, saying they "publicly insulted religious values".
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya posted on X that the Istanbul police had arrested the cartoonist responsible for the cartoon, the magazine's graphic designer, the editor-in-chief of the magazine and other workers.
Some people in Turkey were offended by a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad that was published in #Lemanmagazine. In response, they protested outside the offices of the magazine. The cartoon depicts Muhammad and Moses greeting each other as bombs fall. pic.twitter.com/9BgkUBdA78 — Gül Poyraz (@GuPoyraz) June 30, 2025
He shared a video of one of the arrest operations and wrote: "By our security forces, the person named A. Y., the Institutional Director of the magazine that dared to draw our Prophet (PBUH), has also been apprehended and taken into custody." What was the Turkish magazine's cartoon?
A photo of the cartoon was shared on social media, showing a black-and-white copy of the magazine of two characters hovering in the skies over a city which is being attacked with bombs.
The cartoon read: "Salam aleikum, I'm Muhammad," with the other who replies, "Aleikum salam, I'm Musa."
A video was shared on X of a man climbing the building of the Turkish magazine holding a black flag with the sentence "There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah".
⚡️A Turkish weekly publication recently published a caricature depicting the Prophets Muhammad and Moses, which sparked strong reactions, with protesters raising the banner
'There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah' atop the magazine's building pic.twitter.com/LzywijdC4f
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